S n the land promised to Abraham's seed, a bitter cycle of violence grinds on. In a Palestinian refugee
camp in Gaza last April, the Israeli army bulldozed homes (above) said to harbor snipers.Months
earlier,Israelis buried one of two soldiers (below) lynched by a Palestinian mob. In the wake of
such heartbreak come the tears,soon followed by the diplomats, whose complex political fixes root poorly in
a land long leavened by divine decrees. Whoever believes in God ... should do good to his neighbor, said
the Prophet Muhammad. "When a stranger sojourns with you in your land," God commands the Israelites,
"you shall do him no wrong... and you shall love him as yourself."
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